Sentences with phrase «many trad authors»

Self - Publisher, Author, Writer, hybrid author, trad author, indie, etc etc..

I have read indie authors who shine and trad authors who should be locked in a box as far from a pc as they can get to save us all from more torture.

So, in fact, the indie author is coming to the marketing table with a negative balance, while the trad author is at zero.

You are not one of the big 5 and many of us commenting on Joes blog have trad author friends.

You really need to stop buying into the indie versus trad author war.

I drove down to NO just for the book signing, and I can tell you the trad authors were just as crowded at their tables.

Why should she only read trad authors?

More than that, the trad authors are afraid of being pushed out, which they should be.

It dramatically helps trad authors to buy their books in the first week, and I want my favorite authors to keep publishing.

Many trad authors can't make that claim.

More fans from more diverse places who are less likely to care — all those areas you have access to as a trad author but which are barred to self publishers, some review sites, some national press, some book shops.

But I know so many trad authors who were devastated over their covers and titles (and then were basically «paying» for those design services for their lifetime in royalties).

Many DIY authors will have a lot of information and support to share when many trad authors switch to independent publishing.

I thought 3 years ago, trad authors would have that realization, but they are starting to now.

In particular, I'm very struck by the number of trad authors in the UK who are now in almost open opposition to the publishers who are still mostly slapping high prices on an ebook at launch.

With author Alexandra Lynwood in faithful pursuit, however, even the engaged and engaging Zacharius seems to run up on yet another interesting silence: The Silence of the Trad Authors.

A few taunts thrown down by trad authors / agents / editors sends the goths storming the walls into a fury.

And speaking as a formerly trad author, I KNOW that for a fact.»

All my indie friends make more money in a year than most trad authors will see in a lifetime.

Tsually when you bring trad and indie together the conference is mostly a trad - minded conference that has tied down a bit a self - publishing stream or it's a couple of self - publishing bits for the trad authors who have never heard of self - publishing and so we educate in that very low level.

In this article, Lit Agent Julie Barer tells trad authors to keep their day jobs: «I know it's somewhat of an unpopular opinion, but I think it's unrealistic to expect that you can support yourself solely as a writer in this economy.

The trad author can write that fast, but publishing?

I feel very bad for the trad authors who, at this point, may be really looking for a way out.

Trad authors have too little control.

What I want to say is this is matter between trad authors, trad publishers, and Amazon, there's no reason for customers and self publish authors to meddle or dictate how much big trad publishers SHOULD sell their own ebooks.

Where I care is that trad authors get bigger ebook royalties.

BTW, I'm a recovering trad author soon to make the leap as an indie.

It seems that in most trad publishing arrangements there is an agent involved, and 15 % less in the pockets of trad authors is a pretty big shift in the figures you calculate.

Not exact matches

I was discussing this with someone yesterday, going back and forth at possible explanations, which included that self - pubbed authors tend to work the review mines harder than their trad pubbed peers, or have more support from other indie authors reviewing, or get higher ratings due to the generally lower price of the work (greater satisfaction due to a price / performance expectation).

When I first decided to become an independent author and self - publish after having gone the trad route with nonfiction and made a few attempts to go the trad route for fiction, I knew next - to - nothing about the social media circus I was about to join.

We are in a flood of authors and books, and it doesn't matter if you are a Trad - Author or Indie Author we all float the same and we're on our own.

My limit (except for Baen E-Arcs) seems to be $ 10 even for trad published authors that I have bought for years.

The worst thing on the planet for me would be where trad publishers start paying 50 % or more to their authors, and lose their battle with Amazon, only to see their books priced in the weeds.

We asked her a bunch of questions about what she found in regard to author income, books on sale, and whether indie or trad publishing is more likely to get a person to a living wage (which she defined as the U.S. average of $ 32,000 a year).

And I think the (near) future holds a lot of surprises and new turns that indie authors will be able to capitalise on (better than trad.

Who responded (indie, trad published, hybrid, small press, etc.) and how many authors were interviewed?

I recently unfollowed a debut trad published author on twitter because his comments were things like «I'm having pasta for breakfast.

The more we can do to help authors navigate the tricky learning curve of either self - publishing or working with agents towards a trad publishing contract the better!

The truth has always been that most trad published books are damp squibs (speaking from experience), but self - publishing has allowed authors to give readers what they want to read instead of what agents and publishers think they want to read.

This year I received responses from a total of 227 authors, representing 2,594 indie titles of which 1928 were frontlist indie titles and 666 were backlist (trad - pubbed, now indie) titles, assuming no duplicates (see above).

The top news of the week touched upon waning ebook sales for trad pubs, the EU's recent ruling that ebooks aren't books, the new Author Earnings Dashboard, the getting - by attitude, and the indie startup mindset.

Are poets not authors, because books of poetry typically have low sales, whether self - published or trad - published?

Now trad publishers are scrambling to sign some of the authors they turned away because they have proven that readers want to have more of a selection.

They decided early on to fleece indie authors by charging exorbitant prices — when we all know trad pub pays pennies for each ISBN they use — and indie authors decided that they weren't going to play along with this little game.

The poor trad - published Official Koslowski Authors must be so sad having to share their Goodreads shelf space with the absolute scum of the Earth.

If book «x» is trad published and successful enough to sell, let's say, 20,000 books (or whatever, just a number I grabbed at), and book «y» is indy published and sells the same amount, there is no doubt that the author of the indy book is going to be FAR better off.

I outsell 50 % of the authors on Amazon, both trad and indie, but because some editor didn't validate me I'm not deserving of the title «real author»?

I'd say, if I were curious / interested in trad pub and I was a self - pubbed author, I might consider offering up a purely commercial one - off, standalone.

I know KR and DWS are very down on agents, but they were already established authors who had built reputations through trad publishing before they went indie.

LK — A lot of agents and publishers are making trad pubbed authors do this stuff.